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Monday, September 3, 2018

Balep Korkum/Tibetan Flatbread/Tibet Monastery Bread

You might have noticed that i have kick started a month of blogging marathon since yesterday and the theme for this month's Mega marathon is A-Z International Flatbreads. Obviously after an Egyptioan bread,my today's post goes to Tibet, which is an autonomous region of China. And Tibet is a traditional and historical region of Centrel Asia. Tibet is the highest region on Earth. With Lhasa as capital, Tibet is well known for Dalai Lama, the spiritual leaders of Tibetan people. Tibet cuisine is not that much well known for me, hence i want to discover this cuisine. To kick start my culinary experience with this cuisine, i tried my hands with a flatbread. Balep Korkum is a Central Tibetan style bread which is a flatbread. Tibetans makes many kinds of bread and each areas have their own unique style of breads. But Balep Korkum is one of the easiest flatbread you can make easily at home with usual ingredients you can find in your pantry. Round and quite easy, this flatbread is definitely a simple dish to prepare if you want to make something quick as a bread to serve along with your favourite sauces or curries.

In Tibet, these days, balep korkun is almost exclusively white bread. Though traditionally, in the days before more modern milling machinery, they would have been prepared with whole wheat or barley. In Lhasa, balep korkun is sold either sweet or plain. The sweet versions, which carry a small red mark, are made with purang, which ressembles quite like the concentrated sugar cane juice as much as like Indian jaggery. In my case, i sticked completely with whole wheat flour, hence my Balep korkum got the prefect rustic texture. And obviously i served this pan fried Tibetan flatbread with an Indian spicy side dish to please our tastebuds. This bread stays prefect for two days in room temperature. However we had this bread even for our breakfast with some salted butter and jam after toasting them.

Really crazy you. I think no one can hide any recipe from you in which whole planet. You will dig in so much and get the recipe you want to try. Balep korkumtibetan flatbread looking superb. hats off dear.